Good afternoon! Firstly, today I've been hard @ work plodding 3904 steps today (so presuming I'll have cracked four grand before Saturday's out); secondly, John Piper's daily devotional topic from last night's "God's Best Promise'; thirdly, TWFT topic's Signs Follow Faith' and fourthly, Our Daily Bread's devotional topic's "The Bible's Cherished Words". Anyways, events for today?
- Woo hoo, 19TH consecutive awesome sleep last night! like yesterday, nature didn't call until 7:30am, and after one pot :P trip, I spend ten minutes beginning a mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel, asking him please to help me with the patience, perseverance, strength and endurance I need to get through today with, giving PIG mum all the pleasure, all the satisfaction and just suffering for her whenever she decided that only she can be happy and/or satisfied. It doesn't sound very fair, but she's taught me through her actions, if not through her words, that it's enough she's happy and/or satisfied, and I guess whenever that happens, I've just got to grit my teeth and endure. >< *sigh*
- Nature calls again around 9:00am, shortly before PIG mum begins her noisy daily a-THUMPING around upstairs. Soon, she's let herself into my room to hit me with the eye goo before going back outside and waiting Olivia's arrival @ 9:30am.
- After PIG mum lets Olivia in, she knocks, opens the door and calls good morning. When Pearl nods @ her she asks fifteen more minutes? Pearl nods again and she wisely removes herself; phew, since Pearl's anatomically incapable of giving the Bear Bum! XD
- When Olivia returns, I use the pot :P for one more tinkle, wew get me kitted and then I head over to the bathroom and brush teeth before sitting over the loo for one tinkle. After washing and drying Era, I head out to the gobbling :P table with Olivia.
- Breakfast is my once-weekly fried egg on one slice of dried (unbuttered) toast very lightly spread with avocado and for some reason, the PLATE very lightly sprinkled with salt. I enjoy my first mug of white tea with two sugars, and over breakfast, I spent another ten minutes continuing my mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel, asking him please to help me get through today okay. I find it's exceedingly important to constantly remind the cruel and unfaithful God that He has no bearing on my good day whatsoever, that I am perfectly capable of having a good day without Him, despite Him and apart from Him, because my good day's dependent on my own good attitude. If only God would remember that ... *sigh* He created the phrase 'live and let live', so why the heck can't He lemme live the free, independent life that I deserve? Okay, fair enough, we all only deserve death because of Him, but why can't He just lemme live the life that nearly everyone else gets to live?? *sigh*
- Breakfast finished, Olivia walks with me back to the bathroom and then returns to washup my breakfast stuff. There, I do a stinky unspeakable, also leaning fully against the side rail and finishing my mostly silent chat to Percy the saint/angel. Remember, however the cruel and unfaithful God tries to make my day bad for me, I won't let that affect me because my good day has NOTHING to do with Him; I'm perfectly capable of having a good day without Him, despite Him and apart from Him. See, my good day's dependent on my own good attitude!
- After washing and drying Era, I climb into the passenger seat of Olivia's car and she tootles me off to Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown; I've forgotten the last time I had a shopping trip! :D
- Olivia parks on level two and grabs a trolley for us. After buying groceries from Coles; I've got forty minutes to read in the library, score! While walking into the library I spot a book with a three-day loan sticker that looks interesting and take it for reading in one of those squashy magenta armchairs. The book's called North Woods by Daniel Mason. 'Twas like historical fiction with some bad English grammar and today I reached pg. twenty-five @ 11:58am.
- Back home, I took my quickest possible shower - hairwash today. Also thanks to Olivia who helped me rinse out my hair, thus freeing Era to hold my stupid right eye tightly shut.
- Dried, creamed and rekitted, PIG mum pours me my second big mug of white tea and fed me my afternoon tea sushi roll, even though I've not even had lunch yet! Olivia was rostered to stay till 2pm but with everything done by 1:30pm, asked to leave thirty minutes early, since she's got another shift after me.
- At 1:25pm I sat once more over the loo for two tinkles, since Annie was coming @ 1:30pm for my post-birthday celebration!
- Once she arrived, I climbed into her car and she tootled us off to Papa Chicken!
- We shared half a honey soy chicken and a fried chicken burger with chips; I drank a 260mL orange juice poppa.
- Over lunch, we just chatted. Annie told me all about her new job being a phlebotomist!
- After lunch, we headed across to Excellent Cup and shared a bucket of shaved ice! I chose the one with pudding and pearls but told Annie once Winter arrives, could she take me somewhere for tong yuen instead? Only Annie thinks you can only get them frozen @ Asian grocery stores; aren't there any Winter dessert shops??
- Annie had to get me home before 4pm since she's got a house inspection happening! Her current partner's a tradie and Chi Chi the cat's living with her mum right now.
- Back home, I used the loo for one tinkle then walked myself slowly and safely online, rising above the cruel and unfaithful God’s near-overwhelming hatred and not letting Him push me over.
- Looking forward to watching the 6pm news bulletin (Nine's) for the 46TH time.
- Toms: just church, nothing special. Actually, the special thing's I'm joining other ESS people for lunch afterwards to celebrate my birthday (Thursday) and Yu Lam's birthday (today)(!
- Will hopefully have our once-weekly family dinner out together; think that's officially the first time I've been lucky enough to have both lunch and dinner out properly?
- Anyways, hopefully bbl, else looking forward to seeing everyone @ church toms!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. All the interesting surnames I saw while watching the 6pm news (Nine's, read by Jonathan Uptin) for the 46TH time: Geran, Francis (heard), Crisafulli, Copp, Chanthiwong, Bandt, Dutton, Trump, Putin (heard), Nicholoson, Gollschewski (heard),Kenzie, Chelepy, Heaton, Mendoza, Payten, Reynolds, Tsimpikas, Makenna (first name), Baily, Kearsley, Elon (first name, Fagan, Day, heard),WQilson, Musk (heard), Haas, Foreman, Shellie (first name), Doyle, Woldbye, Crease, Merryn (first name), Baker, Goodwin, Bryan, Peranya (first name), Todhunter, Graham, Kyrgios, Sinclair, Albanese (heard) and Bradnam. Alice Stolz read the housing auction report, Hamilton, Piastri (heard), Bronte Gildea read the sports report and Luke Bradnam read the weather report from Southport. Brisbane tomorrow: 20-28. Mt. Gravatt toms: 20-28. Sunrise 5:53am Sunset 5:56pm
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